A draft bill requiring Iran’s government to pursue uranium enrichment of 20%, and to disregard other restraints put on its nuclear programme by an accord reached with foreign powers in 2015 cleared its first hurdle in parliament on Tuesday. The legislation was proposed in the wake of the...

The trial of Algerian opposition activist Karim Tabbou, a key figure in the Hirak anti-government protest movement, started Monday after a series of delays, one of his lawyers said. The 47-year-old is charged with "damaging the morale of the army". "The trial of Karim Tabbou...

Mohammed Mostafa al-Mohammed started studying medicine in rebel-held northern Syria to help the victims of war, but instead he has graduated into a world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 29-year-old graduate from an opposition-backed university had expected to be tending to the...

Turkish security forces killed four members of Syria's Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as they "attempted to infiltrate" into Turkey's cross-border operation zone in northern Syria, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. "Four PKK/YPG terrorists, who attempted to infiltrate...